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I totally know what you mean. Also, you get so much medical attention when you're pregnant but pp when you feel like shit but have a newborn to look after, no one cares, ha ha. I remember barely being able to stand up from nausea a few days after my c-section when I took my baby to the doctors but the receptionist totally didn't care. A few days earlier I'd have been given a seat and VIP treatment. Oh, how quickly it changes : )

I always tell my husband they should change all the "expectant mothers" parking spots to "just gave birth". HAHA!

YES! I totally understand. I was hemorrhaging (literally hemorrhaging...I kid you not), an hour after my c-section. Everyone was more concerned with scheduling their hospital newborn pictures and arranging times to drop by our house to visit.
Name another time you have major surgery and are expected to function 40 minutes later! Sheesh!
I totally get it.

I've actually been worrying about this! I secretly love how kind and protective people have been of me while I've been pregnant, but I am slightly anxious for the newly PP period where you are recovering but supposed to be taking care of baby and getting back in shape and coming up with a new routine.

Yes! And, I'm not even post partum, yet! My MIL just told me she wants to come over today to help me clean, so that I can rest. I told her that I would *really* like her to come after I have the baby, cause right now *I'm* cleaning, cause I'm nesting, and I'm trying to stay moving to encourage this baby out! She says I need to be resting...no, I need to rest after...come clean, then!

I ended up just telling her to wait til after I have the baby. I got errands to run today anyways.

This is one of society's little "secrets". NO ONE talks about how difficult post-partum can be, so the average person (women who aren't moms and most men) have no idea how difficult it is). I have 6 neices and nephews and my sisters *never* talked about their post partum issues...until now when I am pregnant! My mom never did either (and she had 6!).

So I really think this is a case of a lot of people not realizing. I know before I was pregnant and started gathering information, I had no idea (see my answer on "what did you not know before you were pregnant).

The first time I read one of the posts about "All the things YOU will need after birth", like the sprays, mesh panties, big pads, tucks pads/witchhazel, ice packs, etc. etc. etc.....I was like...WTF? Why does no one talk about this? (I'm guessing because women don't like to talk about the state of their lady parts--understandably.)

I felt feirce when I was pregant! It was like I was doing what I was born to do and it felt so good!

Post partum...well the Mama thing I still feel like I was born to do it but everything else is really HARD!

If I could jsut take care of LO and not have to worry about work, laundry, dishes, dinner life would be grand!

@Anagram: This is so true, and I think some women are also kind of in denial. After having my first, I was whining to one of my mommy friends about how I never knew it was going to be so hard, and she said "yeah, I didn't warn you because I didn't want to discourage you" but I was like "wah, I would have much rather been warned!" So I tried to warn my pregnant friend yesterday about how hard it might be, and she was like "eh, I try not to think about it".. I guess everyone is different!

@andrea86: I was just about to come on here and say that the parking in my area says "For new and expectant mothers'

I never parked there when I was pregnant but now I always do if I have LO in tow!